Countries of the World: Our World in Pictures (DK Our World in Pictures)

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I am from India, and I note that both the suggestions in comments and your list for India reads are those written originally in English. Packed with more than 1,000 incredible images and full of fascinating facts, this beautiful children's book takes you on an exciting round-the-globe tour, with a stopover in every nation on every continent! BrazilJoão Ubaldo Ribeiro House of the Fortunate Buddhas; An Invincible Memory / Clarice Lispector / Rubem Fonseca / Paulo Freire / Clarice Lispector Agua Viva / Jorge Amado Jubiabá; The Double Death of Quincas Water-Bray / João Guimarães Rosa / Paulo Coelho / Machado de Assis Dom Casmurro / Chico Buarque Budapest / Lygia Fagundes Telles The Marble Dance / Zulmira Ribeiro Tavares Family Heirlooms / Patrícia Melo, tr.

Afghanistan – The Bookseller of Kabul – written by a Norwegian journalist (Asne Seierstad) though, so not sure where or if it would fit in. FijiPeter Thomson Kava in the Blood / Epeli Hau’ofa Kisses in the Nederends; Tales of the Tikongs / Mikaele M.

From North Korea, I highly recommend, “My Life and Faith”, by Ri In Mo, an autobiography from one of the world’s longest serving political prisoners.

Czech Republic (Czechia) Bohumil Hrabal Too Loud a Solitude / Hana Demetz The House on Prague Street / Tomáš Zmeškal Love Letter in Cuneiform Script / Josef Škvorecký The Engineer of Human Souls (trans. It’s taken me to a land I hadn’t met in literature before and to the true love of and for medicine and surgery. O. Mitchell’s Who Has Seen The Wind is set in the prairies, Anne of Green Gables by LM Montgomery is on PEI.Whether you want it as a work of reference or just for the fun of learning this is certainly for you. Told through the unique and personal story of the author, How to be your dog’s best friend is bright and vibrant, filled with informative pages on dog-care for children.

Having just finished eleven of the novels on the Man Asian Lit Prize longlist, I am especially interested in the books you’ve chosen from that region. I bet you have seen lots of epic things around woirld although you just sit in your chair~ As a Chinese, I am very glad to see many fictions I loved are listed, hoping you love them as well !I am from Hungary, so I looked at your Hungarian choices with special curiosity, it was interesting to see, what would someone from an other country choose to read. Revised and fully updated, the Third Edition is ideal for students and teachers of geography, politics, economics, and world history, and it is a perfect home reference book. May I suggest, for more Canadian content, Thomson Highway Kiss of the Fur Queen, anything by Richard Wagamese, Gil Adamson’s Ridgerunner has particularly beautiful descriptions of the Rockies, W.

And I can’t resist making a suggestion for Sweden, even if you already have a few books for the country: Montecore, by Jonas Hassen Khemiri is a really interesting book about tunisian immigrants in Sweden that has recently been translated to english.And although there is no official Palestine writing Susan Abulhawa’s Mornings in Jenin is a must read if you want to see a Palestinian perspective and a counter narrative to the Jewish stories. Lesotho Thomas Mofolo Chaka / AS Mopeli-Paulus Blanket Boy’s Moon; The World and the Cattle / Morabo Morojele How We Buried Puso / Various Basali! It would also be great to know which Moldovan authors who haven’t been translated you think we English-language speakers should know about.